A diary offering a rare insight into both sides of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’s infamously rocky marriage to Caitlin McNamara is up for sale, one of 40 pieces being sold for £250,000 on behalf of a New York-based collector by London antiquarian bookseller Rick Gekoski. Gekoski said of the diary, written by Mrs. Thomas: “It was a tumultuous marriage, of that there is no doubt, but what this collection has is both sides of it. It is very raw and emotional. Sometimes she says ‘Oh my God, I wish I’d never married him’ and at other times she wishes she […]
Audible Launches Indie Imprint
Audible and the Center for Independent Publishing are joining forces to publish work from independent publishers.Their first selection is Joe Meno’s Demons from the Spring (Akashic) next month under the Audible IndieFirst banner, released first on audiobook format, one month ahead of print release via Audible.com and iTunes. Bookseller
Editor Solotaroff Dies
Ted Solotaroff, longtime book editor of such authors as Russell Banks, Sue Miller, Max Apple and Bobbie Ann Mason at Harper and founder of The New American Review–supported at first by NAL and later by both Simon & Schuster and Bantam–died Friday at home from complications of pneumonia. He was 80.NYT
Announcements
At Chronicle Books, Amy Treadwell has been promoted to editor, Food and Drink, and Ursula Cary has been named editor in the One and Others group, moving from Simon Spotlight Entertainment. Robert C. Nelson is joining Baker & Taylor as executive v-p, strategic business development, a new position. Previously he was president of UCT Forestry Group. Yale University Press has named William Frucht Executive Editor for Political Science and International Relations. Frucht joins from Basic Books, where he was VP and Executive Editor.
Buffett Bio Now Scheduled for September
The authorized biography of investor Warren Buffett finally has a release date: September 29, according to Bantam Dell. The 976-page book is being written by former Morgan Stanley insurance analyst Alice Schroeder with Buffett’s cooperation and is titled The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. The book had been scheduled for a May release in conjunction with Buffett’s insurance and investment company Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting, but was delayed.USA TODAY
Stock Market Remains Irrational on Amazon/Kindle
To reinforce our Amazon/Sony Kindle/Reader observations from last week, in Monday’s trading the stock market drove up Amazon’s share price based on a new analyst’s report from Citigroup that contains no actual new data of any kind! Yes, the same folks who are deep in hock to Saudi oil masters and others after their huge losses in the American credit market keep using the power of fantasy and multiplication to conclude that Kindle is just like the iPod!Seattle PI Blog